76ers still waiting on Pierre Jackson

Rick Bowmer, AP

The 76ers are hoping Pierre Jackson, recovering from an achilles tendon tear, will be able to join Jahlil Okafor (8) next week in the Las Vegas summer league. Okafor made his 76ers debut Monday night in the Rockey Mountain Reveue in Salt Lake City.

The 76ers are hoping Pierre Jackson, recovering from an achilles tendon tear, will be able to join Jahlil Okafor (8) next week in the Las Vegas summer league. Okafor made his 76ers debut Monday night in the Rockey Mountain Reveue in Salt Lake City. (Rick Bowmer, AP)

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Sixers still waiting on Pierre Jackson

PHILADELPHIA — One year and a day after tearing his right Achilles, the plan was for Pierre Jackson to participate in the 76ers' second rookie/free agent minicamp and then play in the NBA Summer League in his hometown of Las Vegas.

But Jackson didn't scrimmage with the Sixers on Monday and it's unclear if he'll be able to work out with the team over the next three days, putting his status for Vegas up in the air.

"He wasn't able to practice today," said assistant Lloyd Pierce, who'll be the head coach in Las Vegas. "He's here. He's just trying to get himself prepared and we're trying to figure out when and how we're going to use him."

Three weeks ago, Jackson said he was 100 percent physically but hadn't scrimmaged yet. He told Pierce and the Sixers' coaches that he has since scrimmaged, though he didn't do so while in Philadelphia (he also spent time in Vegas).

On June 16, Jackson told two reporters, "I'm just here trying to just be around the guys. I'm working out with them and everything, just in the weight room and stuff like that."

The 5-foot-10, 180-pound Jackson hurt the Achilles seven minutes into the Sixers' summer league opener in Orlando on July 5, 2014. He missed the season and the Sixers waived him last Sept. 29, though the Sixers paid him $400,000 despite not being obligated to.

"I know (sitting out was) tough," Pierce said. "He's a competitor. He wanted to play. He wanted to be with us."

Originally the No. 42 overall pick by the Sixers in the 2013 NBA Draft out of Baylor, Jackson was traded to the Pelicans the same night in the Jrue Holiday deal.

Jackson lit up the NBA D-League for the Idaho Stampede in 2013-14, averaging 29.1 points and scoring a league-record 58 points against the Texas Legends on Feb. 14, 2014. He was traded back to the Sixers on 2014 draft night, only to hurt the Achilles.

"He's an NBA talent because he has an NBA skill — he can put the ball in the basket," Pierce said. "Everyone looks at his size as a first concern. His ability to score is unique and so is his quickness. He can score many different ways."

The NBA Summer League is set for Friday through July 20, with the Sixers opening play Saturday evening against the Lakers (8:30 EDT). Top draft pick Jahlil Okafor, free agent guard T.J. McConnell and 2014 second-rounder Jordan McRae are scheduled to participate in Vegas after playing for the Sixers in the Rocky Mountain Revue, which began Monday night.

NOTES: Former Boise State guard Derrick Marks was added to the second minicamp roster after originally being scheduled to be in the group that's in Salt Lake City. … Among the players attending Sixers camp are second-year swingman JaKarr Sampson, 2013 second-round pick Arsalan Kazemi, UTEP forward Vince Hunter and La Salle center Steve Zack.